Several things have come to my attention recently. One a conversation with and a paper a friend shared about significance and how ours is found in our desire to glorify God and comes as a result of our intimacy with God, an intimacy He calls each of us to enter into through Jesus. My friend quotes “It is very obvious in the way God originally created us that he made us with the capacity to be intimate with him.” Radical Reliance, Joe Stowell.
And there is the second thing that caught my attention – our capacity. Today Kent, our pastor, mentioned it in regards to each one having (or being given) a certain capacity to love. In Matt 25, in the parable of the talents, he equated the talent with ones capacity to love – to love God, in a way defined by Him and to love our neighbor as ourselves. The principle seems to be that the more we are able to return this love, the more love we will have to give (the more love we will have to draw from). It’s like God has invested in us a certain capacity to love and is patiently waiting to see what kind of return He will get from His investment – the more we are able to increase His return, the more He is glorified and the more our joy becomes complete.
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